The Illinois Storytelling Festival returns Saturday as the Spring Grove Storytelling Festival, bringing back a long-time event that once brought up to 2,500 people to the community.

The League of Women Voters of the Palatine Area will host a nonpartisan candidate forums for Illinois House District 52, which pits incumbent Republican state Rep. Martin McLaughlin against Democratic challenger Mary Morgan.

We’re still a couple of months from seeing serious snowfall -- at least we hope so -- but that didn’t keep ski jumpers from across the country from making their way to the suburbs this weekend to get an early start on the season.

On Sept. 25, Hunt Club Park will host a free GO GURNEE Walkin’ and Waggin’ Event.

The eighth annual Day of Hope will take place from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 25 in Fox Lake.

A former Waukegan police officer who was fired after he shot into a car two years ago, killing a Black man and seriously wounding the man’s girlfriend, has been charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, authorities announced on Thursday.

Unlike other 5K races, Making Strides for Special Kids wasn’t about reaching a finish line.

The Grayslake Area Public Library District will have two openings for six-year terms, one opening for a four-year replacement term, and one opening for a two-year replacement term for the position of Library Board Trustee on the April 4, 2023, Consolidated Election ballot.

The April 4, 2023, Consolidated Election will include the election of three village trustees, each for a four-year term of office.